That's a great question, of course, but I also always wonder about the other side of the question. Why were the Germans so into following him? Why were the Germans so disturbed? (By Germans, I mean the cultural group, which includes Austrians.)
Hitler would have gotten nowhere fast with his ideas and obsessions if a nation or two of people hadn't been there, ready to embrace and enforce some of his ideas. To be honest, I worry a little about how we (myself included) tend to want to put the blame of atrocities on individual leaders and their small groups rather than spread it evenly and include the much larger groups of people who explicitly or implicitly support the atrocities.
Leaders, at best, can tap the forces that are already in play in a society. Hitler didn't invent hatred toward the Jews, for example. While some people try to understand Nazi philosophy by looking into Hitler's early childhood, that method strikes me as short-sighted and limited.
The link below leads to a discussion of an important book about how everyday Germans, not just a handful of Nazi officers, made the Holocaust happen.
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